"Want to negotiate with me? Hahaha!" Giant Sun's Will roared with laughter, barely hiding his fury. "Why would I ever negotiate with you? If I kill you and take back the Immortal Essence from your aperture, isn't that the same? I suggest you try destroying the Immortal Essence. Maybe you'll actually succeed!"
Giant Sun's Will had nothing to fear.
Immortal Essence could naturally be destroyed, but right now, it wasn't possible.
If Fang Yuan destroyed it inside his own immortal aperture, the foreign Immortal Essence would cause immense damage to the aperture. That would be suicide!
If he destroyed it outside, the released Immortal Essence Qi would instead help Giant Sun's Will activate the Immortal Gu.
"Fang Yuan, I'm not going to compromise. You can't beat me, and you can't escape. What else can you do? Just give up and die already!" Giant Sun's Will sneered as he continued his pursuit.
Fang Yuan remained silent, focused solely on fleeing.
As time passed, the Great Unity Wind Curtain crept closer. It was soundless, yet it devoured and assimilated everything.
The space available for Fang Yuan to maneuver grew smaller and smaller. Harried and blocked by Giant Sun's Will, danger lurked at every turn.
"Giant Sun's Will, I'm standing right here. Do you dare come over?" Fang Yuan suddenly stopped, ceasing the activation of the Roaming the Horizon Immortal Gu.
Giant Sun's Will also halted, standing hundreds of steps away from Fang Yuan, unwilling to approach any further.
"Hmph, I expected you'd make this choice." He let out a disdainful snort. "But so what? You're just stalling your own death. I'll just wait for you to die of old age!"
It turned out that Fang Yuan was standing right in the area shrouded by the Halo of Wisdom.
The Light of Wisdom was the natural bane of Giant Sun's Will, which was why he had stopped pursuing.
After this intense battle, the remaining mass of his will was only the size of an adult human and could no longer withstand such violent attrition.
"Fang Yuan, your lifespan!!" Mo Yao's Will warned.
"What choice do I have in this situation?" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, his voice filled with hatred and utter helplessness.
Standing within the light of Wisdom, Fang Yuan could clearly feel his lifespan continuously decreasing.
But he was forced into this corner. Giant Sun's Will hated him to the core and refused to give him any chance for negotiation or compromise.
"Sigh!!" Mo Yao's Will let out a heavy sigh. "This is just delaying the inevitable. Wisdom Gu might retract its light at any moment."
Fang Yuan remained silent.
Giant Sun's Will suddenly shouted to Hei Lou Lan and the others: "You! Deal with this scoundrel! His defensive Gu were mostly exhausted in the fight against me! Force him toward Wisdom Gu. The closer he gets to Wisdom Gu, the stronger the Light of Wisdom becomes, and the faster his lifespan drains. Let's see how much lifespan he has to waste!"
Hei Lou Lan and the others acknowledged the order.
Even Hei Lou Lan, who possessed the Great Strength True Martial Physique, had no desire to engage Fang Yuan in close combat.
They had already discussed their plan and now acted in unison, unleashing a barrage of long-range attacks.
Fang Yuan let out a cold snort, standing within the halo of light. While raising his defensive Gu, he also retaliated with long-range Gu.
His body was covered by four or five layers of light shields, dozens of bone shields danced around him, and stone doors would occasionally rise from the ground to block the fierce bombardment from Hei Lou Lan and the others.
Ordinary defensive mortal Gu were not very effective against Giant Sun's Will. But against these mortal Gu Masters, they were quite useful.
Although Fang Yuan practiced the Strength Path and was not adept at long-range combat, he still had quite a few long-range Gu, even if they weren't very systematic.
More importantly, he had Infinite True Essence. As a result, he was able to hold his own in the exchange of fire, a far cry from his previous predicament against Giant Sun's Will.
"Intensify the attack, don't let up for a single moment! Even if he has Infinite True Essence, he can't keep activating mortal Gu indefinitely!" Hei Lou Lan shouted.
"Correct! Mortal Gu are not Immortal Gu; they have a limit to their endurance. Continuous activation will cause the Gu worms to collapse," Yelü Sang immediately chimed in.
Both of them were clan leaders of the Hei and Yelü families and knew quite a lot.
Gu are the essences of heaven and earth, the vessels of the Great Dao. In essence, they are tools.
Every tool has its appropriate usage. When a tool is used too much, it will inevitably become overburdened and break down.
When a mortal Gu Master uses mortal Gu, because their True Essence is limited, the number of activations is also limited, making this drawback less obvious. However, when a Gu Immortal activates mortal Gu, this problem becomes prominent.
Yet, after exchanging blows for a while, the hopes of Hei Lou Lan and the others were dashed.
"How does he have so many Gu worms?" someone roared in disbelief.
The sheer quantity of Fang Yuan's Gu worms far exceeded their imagination. In the exchange, he continuously swapped Gu, using them alternately, as smooth as flowing water.
"Even if he has a mysterious background and prepared for ascension by stockpiling many mortal Gu, a mortal aperture can't possibly hold this many Gu," the crowd was confounded, growing uncertain.
"Could it be…" Giant Sun's Will recalled the scene of Fang Yuan opening the Star Gate.
Fang Yuan had opened the Star Gate right inside the Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, so Giant Sun's Will was fully aware of it.